MANY ARRESTS
M.P.’S FUNERAL DRASTIC POLICE ACTION KOBE, March 17. The funeral of Yammato, Scnji, the Radical in oiii I mm* of' Ihe Diet who was fatally stabbed by a jourualisi in au hotel mi the night of Mareh 0, look place at Kyoto yesterday, which was (hi l anniversary of last year’s arrest; ot' a thousand Communists. The police imposed the most elaborate precautions, prohibiting demonstrations, handbills, and orations, and only permitting the songs and tumoral addresses after they had sanctioned the lext of same. The remains, on arriving at Kyoto, were met by u guard of 1,00 policemen, who arrested I.'! known Radical sympathisers. The lawyer, Koi.wai, delivering the funeral address, compared the deceased to l.iebnecht, the Dorman Socialist, whereupon the police,ordered silence.
simultaneously the memorial service ai Tokio was raided by police, who confiscated banners.
Workers in the Osaka factories celebrated the occasion by a Li-minutes' strike, and the police arrested 30 of the leaders.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 1 April 1929, Page 5
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